I'm trying to use mod_auth for managing authentication on a Lighttpd server (version 1.4.48) before sending the HTTP request to an underlying application and I need that Lighty sends to it the username of the authenticated user. I thus put the following data in my Lighty configuration:

proxy.forwarded = ( "remote_user" => 1 )

Unfortunately, it seems that the option is ignored. Here is a netcat output that dump my HTTP request on the underlying application: